A family home, handed down and still lived in
Roseline and her daughter Béatrice open the doors of a house that has always run to the rhythm of long tables set out under the trees and the smell of Sunday tarts.
By opening the family home to travellers, Béatrice wanted to see it carry on living rather than sleep for eleven months of the year. Nothing has been stripped out: the walnut sideboard, the patterned kitchen floor and the brass wall lights are all where they have always been. What was missing was simply added — Wi-Fi, a billiard table, bicycles in the shed.
The result is 160 square metres entirely on one level, without a single step between the bedrooms and the garden. A rare layout, and a precious one with small children or with grandparents.
Four ways to live in Chablis
People do not book the house for the same reasons in February and in August. Each stay has its own page, with the right rate, the practical details and our recommendations on the ground.
Family holiday
A fully enclosed garden, no steps anywhere, a washing machine and a tumble dryer, and six proper beds. The house was opened for exactly this kind of stay.
See the family stay
Weekend break
Two nights are enough for a tasting, a dinner that runs late and a game of billiards. Roughly 180 km from Paris — the shortest escape genuinely worth the drive.
See the weekend stay
Wine lovers’ stay
Four appellations, seven Grands Crus, one single grape. Staying in the village means you can taste without getting back behind the wheel — which is not a detail.
See the wine stay
Cycling & nature
The house bicycles are yours at no extra cost. The slopes, the Serein valley and the Nivernais canal offer loops for every pair of legs.
See the cycling stay
A real billiard room, not a lounge with a table squeezed in
This is the room nobody asks about before arriving and everybody misses on leaving. A French billiard table in pale maple fills an entire room, lit by its own pendant lamp, standing on the original patterned parquet.
On rainy evenings it saves the holiday. On summer evenings it keeps dinner going long after the garden has turned cool.
- French billiards, dedicated room
- Lounge with flat-screen TV and DVD player
- Free Wi-Fi throughout
- Bicycles lent at no charge
- Dishwasher, washing machine, tumble dryer
- Two separate toilets
The village, not just the label
Chablis fits into a handful of streets along the river Serein, between slopes of Kimmeridgian marl laid down some 150 million years ago. People come for the wine and stay for everything else.
The vineyard & tastings
Petit Chablis, Chablis, Premier Cru, Grand Cru: understand the four appellations before you knock on a cellar door, and leave with the right bottles.
Read the vineyard guide
Things to do in Burgundy
Pontigny, Tanlay, Ancy-le-Franc, Noyers-sur-Serein, the Fosse Dionne: everything sits within an hour’s drive, and most of it stays open off-season.
Read the regional guideA real lovely place. Everything that we wanted and more. Wonderfully equipped kitchen and rooms.September 2010
The house was perfect for our family stay: so large, so spacious and so well equipped — that is rare. The sunshine let us enjoy the village and the banks of the Serein.October 2011
We greatly enjoyed our stay in this house, which was larger than our little house in Holland.July 2010
The best weeks go early
July, August and the last weekend of October — the Chablis wine festival — are often booked months ahead. Send us your dates and we will reply quickly.